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Posted by lborgia88 on 15-04-2010 at 00:02:

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Originally posted by Transmute Jun
2 goons are talking and one is wondering if they're going to be okay. And the other comments that Katse is still on the mecha, so things can't be that bad yet! ROFL 2


Some goons must have survived some of the many destructions of mechas and bases -clearly word got around in Galactor circles... Laugh1

Posted by lborgia88 on 15-04-2010 at 00:11:

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Originally posted by UnpublishedWriter


Killing off a good chunk of the human species is another way to take over the world.



I can't help but think that it takes all the fun out of ruling the world, though, if it's a devastated mess with millions dead. I'd want to find a way to make the world do my bidding while still leaving most of the people, infrastructure and means of production functioning as usual (though for my benefit, naturally).

Of course, it's highly unlikely I'll be undertaking global conquest any time soon!

Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 15-04-2010 at 00:55:

The only advantage is that there are fewer people to rule.

Secretly getting control of everything is even better, especially if nobody even suspects it. The world looks the same as ever, right down to silly pundits on television and the latest Hollywood scandal. But the people who own the corporations, run for political office, write the PR packages, and so on -- they all have the little red pins and some have funny blue-and-green outfits (or worse) in the closet (I mean a physical closet).

My AU Galactor tried for the whole covert takeover thing, until something happened, and Leader X started throwing mecha at everything. (I still resist the sequel series, since they were clearly not in the original plan, and most of the original Gatch producers weren't around for them. Completely unreasonable of me, I know.) And they had been doing so well at it, too.

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Posted by lborgia88 on 15-04-2010 at 03:10:

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Originally posted by UnpublishedWriter

My AU Galactor tried for the whole covert takeover thing, until something happened, and Leader X started throwing mecha at everything. (I still resist the sequel series, since they were clearly not in the original plan, and most of the original Gatch producers weren't around for them. Completely unreasonable of me, I know.) And they had been doing so well at it, too.


If I recall, in the very first episode at the UN meeting, only Dr. Nambu seems to have ever heard of Galactor and to know what it's about and I think in episode 81 he says something to the effect that he learned about Galactor during the visit to BC Island when he found young Joe. That means that Galactor existed very secretly for at least nine years before revealing itself openly with the turtle king mecha in episode 1. I've always assumed that Galactor was just biding its time, waiting to build up enough resources and personnel to "go public" but there certainly could have been other possible reasons for the sudden change in tactics...

Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 17-04-2010 at 06:09:

In 'The Evil White Sea', one goon implies Galactor has been around for thirty years.

Nambu found about the V2 plan 15 years before the first episode, which was when Kentaro went undercover to Hontwarl.

The show was a bit sloppy about some things.

I think a few fanfic authors have made their own timing.

Without the sequel series, it is a mystery why an organization apparently enjoying great covert success should suddenly resort to blatant mecha attacks. If we accept the war between Selectol and Proxima Centauri, then we can presume that Leader X had to suddenly change its plans because of bad news. Otherwise, we can speculate that Leader X got busy for other reasons. Alien reasons we'd never understand.

So many possibilities.

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Posted by lborgia88 on 24-05-2010 at 08:58:

Battle of the Planets Episode: “Invasion of the Locusts”

“Center Neptune, hidden fathoms beneath the sea [yes, but not very many fathoms and more hidden by the coral reef than anything else]” says Zark as we see Center Neptune, “Is a bulwark of security against the forces of any alien planet that would invade Earth and plunder its resources or enslave its people.”

Zark himself is standing in front of one of his monitors. Rotating his head slightly to look out at his audience, he remarks that he has a complex job, and boasts that he’s not a “run of the mill, assembly line robot.” “No indeed,” he adds, “The Galaxy depends on me for all kinds of important technical information.”

Now he brings up a crude image of Earth from space, showing continents and oceans, and claims he “just worked out something that’s pretty mind-boggling.”

Reminding us that the Earth rotates on its axis (a dotted line helpfully shows us viewers where this is) once every 24 hours which gives us day and night (helpful little images of a sun and a moon on opposite sides of the Earth help clarify this), Zark now asks if we know that our day is actually being lengthened!

“Yes, getting longer by one second, every 100,000 years!”

But, he goes on to note that if this slowing process has been going on for the last 5 billion years, then a day on Earth was once only a 10 hour day! Was there anything alive here 5 billion years ago to care? No.

But Zark now comments that in another 5 billion years, a day might last for 38 hours.

“And you know,” he adds, “I’ll be working every one of them.”

Zark, you will most certainly not last that long…

However, the educational component is complete, and Zark turns his attention to spying on Spectra to see “what new devilry Zoltar is up to.”

“Not a day goes by,” explains Zark, “that he doesn’t get another new and evil scheme for conquering Earth.”

So, we cut to the Lumious One.

“Too often, Zoltar,” he’s saying “the Earthlings have made a mockery of your plans. You cannot allow that to happen again. The populace of Spectra will not accept another failure.”

Since when do their opinions matter? Spectra has never struck me as a democratic kind of place. Granted, the Luminous One might not be implying that Zoltar will lose an election but rather that his head will end up on some Spectran peon’s pike in a bloody revolution.

But no worries, Zoltar bows and says “I promise a glorious victory.” The Luminous One is pleased to hear this, but will be “better pleased when the Earth is ours.”

Now Zoltar is standing behind a podium, addressing a room full of green-clad Spectran soldiers.

“And a small, innocent-looking locust,” he is telling them, “is at the very heart of my plan.”

“An ordinary grasshopper?” asks one soldier.

“No,” says Zoltar, “A very extraordinary one!”

He opens a small box that’s sitting on his podium and out flies a “very extraordinary” grasshopper. Or locust.

It’s so extraordinary, it flies straight to the soldier who’d asked the question and lands on his nose. This causes him to sneeze (or that’s the only method the soldier can think of to get it off his face without swatting at it and risking Zoltar’s wrath). The locust immediately flies straight back to its box, and light glints off it briefly.

One of the soldiers asks if Zoltar’s playing some trick, as he saw “a metallic gleam reflecting from its body.” He wonders if there’s more to this insect than meets the eye.

Yes, there is –“a metallic gleam to better distinguish it from the living locusts that will follow it,” Zoltar explains.

“A mechanical Judas goat that will lead hordes of voracious locusts,” continues Zoltar with enthusiastic menace, “in a devastating attack upon the food supplies of the planet Earth!”

(“Judas goat”? I guess Earth terms, rooted in the New Testament, have somehow found their way into usage on Spectra.)

Oh no, my eyes! It’s the Ready Room, and Mark and Jason are playing ping pong to the accompaniment of quintessentially 70s music, Tiny is eating Space Burgers, and Princess and Keyop are playing their guitar and drums.

“Hey, what do I hear about you taking courses over at J.C., Jason?” asks Mark, amidst his swats with his ping pong paddle.

What is a “J.C.”? I’m guessing “junior college”?

“Just thought maybe I’d brush up on retro-ignition systems and the new thermal timing transmissions,” replies Jason, “I’m entered in the Australian 5000 Mile Kangaroo Derby next month.”

Um, I’m not sure this is Jason’s regular voice actor here –he doesn’t sound quite like he usually does.

“Retro-ignition systems, that’s a laugh,” comments Princess, pausing in her guitar playing, “I know what’s sparking your plugs, Jason –that new female instructor.”

Okay, I think you need a better automotive metaphor, Princess!

Keyop also pauses in his percussive endeavors to warble and add “Cool chick!” before breaking into a vigorous drum solo.

And Mark sends a ping pong ball flying, knocking a Space Burger from Tiny’s hand –much to Tiny’s horror.

Now Zark appears on their screen, to tell them “an urgent matter has just come up.”

He tells them that a “Professor Chambers” is in the Center Neptune lounge. This professor had wanted to meet with Chief Anderson, but he’s out of his office this day, and now the professor wants to pass on “vital information” to G-Force instead.

“I think you should see him,” says Zark, “He’s our leading entomologist, you know.”

“Entomologist?” says Princess, “You mean he collects stamps?” Groan!

“Entomology is the study of insects, Princess,” replies Zark, “I wish you’d go down and talk to him, please.”

So, standing in a row as they listen to Zark, they all raise their hands in the G-Force salute but what they actually say is “Insects?” before the floor drops away beneath them and they all plummet.

So now they’re in the Center Neptune lounge, sitting at or (in Keyop’s, Jason’s and Professor Chambers’ case, standing near) a booth. No drinks in sight, though. What kind of lounge is this?

Professor Chambers is telling them he’s discovered a “peculiar” locust in the “region of the Amazon.”

“You, Commander,” he adds, “must realize that it’s something deadly from an alien planet. Here, look at it.”

Now we see, briefly, a locust sitting in a box, and then Mark studying a piece of paper.

He wants to know why the Professor came to them –“This is a matter for a scientist like yourself.”

The professor is keen to get back to the Amazon to study the “environmental effects caused by these insects.”

“Perhaps, one of you…” he adds, but Tiny and Princess pull back in dismay. But Keyop extends an arm and chirps “Me!” excitedly, adding “Yup. Just right size. For grasshoppers.”

I guess Keyop is the sole volunteer. Next we see, he’s in a small plane, piloted by a young man, that’s flying over the Amazon region.

“Paradise,” says Keyop, staring out ahead.

Professor Chambers is in the plane too, and he tells Keyop “the Amazon jungle is never that.”

“Pretty,” insists Keyop.

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They fly on some more. Now, inside the plane, Professor Chambers is consulting a map and saying the “The site of the expected locust invasion is not very far from here.”

“Here they come!” announces Keyop.

“What?” cries the Professor, “Brace yourselves!”

“Scary,” adds Keyop.

The Professor says he’s never seen locusts flying this high and he instructs the pilot to either get under or over them. The pilots opts, it seems, to go under them.

Now we see in incoming swarm of locusts up close, briefly.

“If we change altitude, so do they!” says the Professor with considerable concern. The pilot looks horrified.

Now they’re in the midst of the swarm, and locusts are splatting all over the plan. Looking out the window, Keyop cries “In the engine!”

“No!” says the Professor, alarmed at this, and he too rushes to look out the window with Keyop. It looks like a pontoon float might be damaged and falling off, but I don’t see any signs of engine problems.

‘I’m getting out of here!” cries the pilot, and he leaps from the plane. We briefly see his parachute open but suddenly, Keyop is at the plane’s controls. I’m sure that pilot will be fine.

“Can’t hold it,” he cries, “Going down!”

The Professor thinks the pilot was trying to land in the river. “It’s our only chance,” he declares. Meanwhile, the windows are starting to crack from all the locust impacts.

“Do my best,” replies a scowling Keyop.

Well, he lands the plane on the river and it seems to be pretty much in one piece, its occupants unharmed.

“We’re only a mile from camp,” the Professor says, as we see the locusts swarming towards the jungle in a cloud, “But where did those locusts come from?”

Now we cut back to Zark at Center Neptune. He’s trying to contact Mark, who shortly appears on Zark’s screen.

“I’m getting fuzzy signals from Keyop,” explains Zark, “But I can’t make them out.”

“Sounds like Zoltar interfering again,” says this very awkwardly drawn Mark, “That means trouble.” He regrets now letting Keyop go alone on the mission, and asks Zark to keep trying to contact Keyop.

Meanwhile, Keyop is sitting by a river somewhere in the Amazon region. A locust lands on a plant behind him, rustling its wings. Keyop turns around and spots it.

“I’ll spear one,” he announces, frowning. He stands, pulls out a pocket knife and throws it, but he misses. “Missed him,” he mutters.

Now we see an extremely large, spaceship-sized locust, parked elsewhere in the jungle.

Inside, Zoltar is standing on the upper level of a large room. “Everything is perfect,” he says, “An insect more destructive has never been bred.” And we get a look and rows and rows of locusts, each in their own little glass-front box with an opening so they can stick their heads out and eat the foodstuff that’s laid out in front of their boxes. In some other large, round compartments, larvae are visible and other locusts are shedding their exoskeletons as they grow larger.

We see the mouth of the giant locust ship open and a Spectran soldier calls “Ready, Sire.”

“Release them!” orders Zoltar, and we see one locust take flight to leave the ship.

A cloud of other locusts, forming a dense swarm, also leaves the ship and takes to the air, following the first locust.

Meanwhile, the Professor and Keyop are in some building that can only be the aforementioned “camp.” A locust, dangling from a string, is moving towards a scientific-looking device that’s emitting some kind of buzzing frequency.

“This locust is a mutant,” says the Professor, watching all this closely, “I’m sure of it.”

He goes outside the building –that has log walls and a thatched roof- and calls to Jinpei to use binoculars and look for any sign of locusts.

Keyop is up on an observation platform now, doing just that.

“Here they come. Ooh wow. Even more,” says Keyop to the Professor as he spots an incoming swarm.

“I was afraid of that,” says the Professor, and he begins spraying the side of the building with clear liquid from a barrel.

He turns down Keyop’s offer to help him, saying that the liquid he’s spraying is very poisonous and therefore dangerous, but there’s nevertheless a slim chance it might affect the locusts.

“Kill them?” asks Keyop.

“Hopefully. At least drive them away,” replies the Professor, still spraying.

“Listen,” says Keyop, approaching the Professor and smiling, “Smells awful.”

The Professor agrees but says it might just do the trick.

“Maybe G-Force will smell us,” says Keyop, looking excited.

And we cut to Center Neptune. Chief Anderson is saying “It was a big mistake to send Keyop alone with Professor Chambers. It’s unfortunate I had to be out of the office.”

“That’s 20/20 hindsight, Chief,” replies Mark, “I did what I thought was right. The important thing now is to rescue them.”

Chief Anderson’s concern is that the whole world might need to be rescued.

“The locusts can devour the food reservoirs of Earth,” he explains, “Causing mass starvation.”

“So why are we sitting here talking about bugs?” asks Tiny, who’s all ready to go find Keyop and the Professor (and defend the Earth’s food reservoirs too, no doubt.)

Actually, Anderson tells them that he’s sending them immediately to South America and that their mission is to find Keyop and the Professor and “stop Zoltar in his tracks.”

“Millions of locusts have been reported in the Amazon region,” he continues, “and the problem is fast multiplying. They pose a threat, not only to our food supplies, but to our very existence.”

He points out that the problem can only get worse, as “One locust can lay 300 eggs.”

Mark stands up confidently, saying “This is a job I know G-Force can handle, Chief Anderson. Like Tiny just said, what are we waiting for? Blast off!”

So now the Phoenix is flying through the sky en route to South America.

At the camp, the Professor is slumped at a table and Keyop is sitting on the floor, looking gloomy.

Meanwhile, out in the jungle, a massive swarm of locusts is breaking into sub-formations, streaming off in various directions.

Inside the building, Keyop suddenly lifts his head, eyes wide.

Outside, locusts have landed in the jungle and are eating the trees’ leaves.

Inside the building, Keyop is looking apprehensive, but outside, locusts continue to eat leaves.

Now we cut to Zark, pacing back and forth in his room at Center Neptune.

“It’s a good thing robots don’t sleep,” he’s saying, “Because I wouldn’t be able to anyway.”

He’s worried about Keyop and the Professor, somewhere in the Amazon jungle, though he’s somewhat reassured by the fact that G-Force has been sent to go look for them.

“Meanwhile, I’ve got to keep trying to make contact,” he says, and flaps his cape to slowly fly over to his console. He begins pushing buttons and trying to reach Keyop.

Meanwhile, a locust is hovering over the building where Keyop and the Professor are, and it emits two orange zaps of energy from its antennae.

Then it lands on the building’s window sill, and does the zapping-antennae thing again.

Keyop hears it, as does the Professor, and he says “Weird noise,” stands up, and pulls out his pocket knife again. This time, when Keyop hurls his knife at the locust, he successfully impales it.

“Good, Keyop, let’s have a look at that one,” says the Professor’s voice as we see the locust (clearly mechanical) lying on a metal tray.

“This is remarkable,” adds the Professor, “It’s a tiny robot with a signaling device that causes the locusts to follow it.” We see, in a series of still images, the robot locust further dismantled down to its bare frame.

“We’ve got to examine this specimen scientifically, Keyop,” says the Professor next and he’s got the basic innards of the locust hooked up to a circuit of some kind.

“We’ll start with the electroid analyzer,” he adds. He pushes a couple buttons and stares, with Keyop, at some oscilloscope-like screens while some lights are blinking along the circuit and we hear a high-pitched humming noise.

“High frequency,” says Keyop, watching the screens.

“Exactly,” agrees the Professor, “The signal emitted by the robot locust is irresistible to the living insect. With it, Zoltar can guide the insects to any site he wants to destroy.”

The Professor looks depressed at this thought.

Keyop asks him what they like to eat. “Anything that stands in their path,” is the grim reply.

So much for spraying poison on the building –locusts now start breaking through the walls of the building, drawn by the high-frequency signal. Keyop and the Professor gasp in alarm.

“The only way to get rid of them,” says the Professor as he and Keyop make the futile gesture of propping a table against the door, “It to burn them out!”

A bunch more locusts break in through the wall near Keyop. He looks momentarily upset but then smiles and says “Must be the Phoenix!”

He must have really good hearing!

The Professor looks at Keyop with an inquiring “Eh?”

The giant locust ship containing Zoltar is on the move now. It lands near the building, but by now, the Professor has initiated his “Burn them out!” plan and the building is blazing away.

Zoltar, inside the locust ship, announces that they will stay where they are and wait for G-Force, “who should be arriving quite soon.” (How does he know?)

“Aw, not the Phoenix,” says Keyop sadly as he stands beside one of the locust ship’s legs and gazes up at it.

Inside, Zoltar doesn’t seem to know that Keyop is standing right beside his ship; he wants to be informed just as soon as the Phoenix arrives.

“I can trace their progress by radar,” announces a Spectran soldier, and Zoltar orders “Do it!”

The soldier says “Yes, Sir,” but wants to know how Zoltar can be sure that G-Force will fall for his trap.

Zoltar says “Leave it to me,” but then explains “I’ve given them a giant arrow shaped like their secret [not so “secret”, if Zoltar knows it] emblem. They’ll think it’s a signal from the small one.”

How do they know that Keyop is even in the Amazon at all? We’ve seen no indication that they’re aware of his presence –they don’t even seem to know that he’s standing right outside, beside their ship.

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“Keep your eye on the scope,” says Mark to Princess as the Phoenix flies on, nearing the Amazon region. “Roger,” replies Princess, then adding “I’m getting a lot of interference!”

“It’s the rough jungle terrain, this won’t be easy,” replies Jason –only the second line he’s had so far in this episode! (But his voice sounds just like his usual voice this time).

Tiny, staring out at the terrain in the distance ahead, gasps “Do you see that?”

Mark observes it’s some kind of clearing, saying “We’d better check it out.”

“Hey, does that look familiar to you?” says Jason, also staring out ahead.

“It’s the G-Force secret emblem!” says Princess, and now we can indeed see that there’s a section of jungle in the midst of the clearing, that’s shaped just like it.

“Keyop knows we’d never pass that by,” says Mark, and Tiny adds “Gotta give him credit.”

Princess wants to land as fast as possible and Mark concurs.

Now Zoltar has been apprised that G-Force’s arrival is imminent. “Here comes the Phoenix,” he says, “Drawn to my trap like iron to a magnet –those fools!”

Keyop and the Professor are now both standing near the locust ship, watching the Phoenix approach.

“Troubles are over,” says Keyop, holding up one arm in the air. The Professor isn’t so sure that their troubles aren’t just beginning but Keyop insists “Count on G-Force!

In the locust ship, Zoltar orders “Release the robot and get those locusts in the air!”

A swarm of locusts flies out of the ship’s mouth, all following a robot locust.

On the Phoenix, Tiny groans “We’re in for it,” as he sees the approaching swarm. “Hold on!” cries Princess and the Phoenix starts shaking as it gets bombarded by locusts.

“We’ve got to get above the swarm,” declares Mark, “Tiny, come on! Bring her up!”

But the Phoenix is still in the thick of the swarm. “Pull up!” repeats Mark, but we see Tiny trying and the controls won’t budge. “I can’t!” he gasps.

“Then we’ll have to transmute –everyone get ready,” decides Mark.

It works! The heat from the fiery Phoenix enables them to burn a clear path through and out of the swarm, leaving it all in flames in their wake.

On the locust ship, Zoltar growls “What a farce. They think the game is over and it has hardly begun. Head for our target!”

The locust ship takes to the air now. Keyop and the Professor look up from where they’ve been crouched behind a fallen tree and watch it leave. “G-Force to the rescue!” cries Keyop.

“Keyop, go to your friends,” says the Professor’s voice as the locust ship flies off, “I’m going to stay here and continue my work.”

So, now Keyop starts running. The Phoenix has landed and everyone’s exiting from the dome as Keyop comes running towards them, waving excitedly.

“At last!” says Keyop, throwing himself into Princess’ arms, crying “Princess!”

“Keyop!” she replies.

“Did you think we’d forgotten you?” asks Mark, smiling.

Keyop, who’d been telling the Professor that G-Force would be coming must not have really been so sure –tears are streaming down his face now. “Yeah,” he nods.

The locust ship continues to fly along, as inside, Zoltar says “While they celebrate their victory in the jungles of the Amazon, we will decimate their greatest cities. Release the locusts and let nature take its lovely course!”

So, another swarm of locusts emerges from the ship’s mouth. But the Phoenix is back in the air now.

“This just came in from Chief Anderson,” says Mark, studying a stack of paper (is there a fax machine on the Pheonix?)

“Have they been able to divert the attack?” asks Princess.

“It’s bad, the locusts have all but destroyed several cities,” [I hope they were evacuated first!] replies Mark grimly, handing the stack of paper to Princess, “There has to be a way we can stop them!”

“Professor Chambers,” says Princess, looking at Keyop, “Didn’t he say the locusts were directed by a high frequency beam?” (I guess Keyop’s found the time to tell her all about the Professor’s experiments.)

“Yeah, but what frequency is Zoltar using?” wonders Mark, “If we knew that we could duplicate it.”

“Keyop,” says Jason, smirking, “You were with Professor Chambers.”

“3000 megs, I think,” says Keyop, shrugging.

Princess decides it’s worth trying. “Roger,” says Keyop, pressing buttons.

The Phoenix starts emitting the frequency. In the jungle, where the regular locusts are chomping leaves, a robot locust picks up the Phoenix’s signal and flies off towards it. The rest of the locusts drop their leaf-eating and follow the robot locust in a swarm.

In fact, now, from all over the vast expanse of jungle, numerous swarms are rising up from the trees and all heading towards the Phoenix, to the accompaniment of funky 70s music.

As the Phoenix flies along, with a massive swarm of locusts trailing it, we hear Mark’s voice saying that they’re following the frequency signal and that it will destroy them.

How will it destroy them?

Well, the Phoenix flies out over the ocean now, and disappears beyond the horizon. The massive swarm follows.

But on the bridge of the Phoenix, Mark spots Zoltar’s locust ship. “There it is, the King Locust,” he says, and tells Jason “Let ‘em have it!”

“It’s on its way,” answers Jason, looking grimly pleased as he presses the red button.

A missile from the Phoenix smashes clean through the locust ship’s exterior, scattering Spectran soldiers, and lodges in the far wall of the room.

“G-Force, you will pay for this!” snarls Zoltar, leaning on console to restore his balance after the impact.

“We’re losing altitude!” cries a soldier at the ship’s controls.

“I can see that very plainly,” rants Zoltar, “We’ll have to abandon the ship!”

As the Phoenix swoops past the locust ship, Zoltar mutters, “While it pains me to leave the field of battle, we really have no choice. Get all men aboard the escape vehicle immediately!”

Hmm, only Zoltar is visible in the dome atop the escape vehicle when it leaves the locust ship, and it sure doesn’t look like there’s much room for anyone else in there…

There must be a second, larger escape vehicle that we’re just not being shown. Yes, that’s it.

With everyone safely evacuated, the locust ship continues on its way, out over the sea. Once it’s past the horizon, there’s a massive explosion.

In a voice over, as the Phoenix flies past a beautiful sunset, Zark reminds us that Zoltar escaped but that G-Force his happy to have thwarted, once again, his evil plans.

Though, we never did see what exactly happened to the massive locust swarm that was following the Phoenix out over the ocean. Did they all eventually drop from exhaustion and fall into the sea to drown?

We’re back with Zark and 1-Rover-1 now, at Center Neptune.

“I’d like to do something nice for the team when they arrive,” Zark is saying, “Maybe a surprise party in the Ready Room. Keyop would like that.”

1-Rover-1 yaps.

“Yes, you’re right, 1-Rover-1,” replies Zark, “I’ve never given a party. What could I do? I don’t know any funny stories. I don’t sing. I can’t dance.” He sighs, “Oh dear, I think I’ll send some nice flowers and note that says what an honor and a privilege it is to be associated with…”

Here he pauses, salutes and says breathily, “G-Force!”

1-Rover-1 stands and also salutes, and yaps his concurrence with this sentiment.


The end.

Posted by Transmute Jun on 24-05-2010 at 14:00:

Ick... the idea of Zark sending Princess flowers has me Puke2 .... so creepy!!!!

Great BOTP review, LB! And I'm ROFL 2 at the Ready Room scenes! I wonder what happened with Jason and his instructor? DId she like his 'tough guy' look, or his 'limp-wristed butt-ouut ping pong pose'?

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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 24-05-2010 at 15:19:

I wonder if the scriptwriters ever saw the results of their work, or if they were too busy to do so.

Or were they afraid to look?

If Zark weren't so (unintentionally) weird and creepy, sending flowers would be cute. But when we remember that he pays 'special attention' to Princess....

Springie really should do that B-movie poster about Zark and Princess. Just remember the power tools Prin should wield. (Two posters: one is the B-movie Zark fantasy. The other is the result if Zark should try it. Third poster showing Zark recycled into a grill or furniture is optional.)

Some of the team member close-ups in the Ready Room add-on animation are competent. They look more like the team than the creatures who play ping-pong, guitars, and drums or eat spaceburgers. (I suppose it was the limitations of the technology in the 1970s that kept the animators from 'borrowing' close-ups from the original animation. That, or they realized that doing so would only make their crappy additions stand out even more.)

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